Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing Trends) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Feb 1998

Well, I can't download anything right now, but another small thing
like  that is the NeoDesktop at www.newdealinc.com. It seems to
descend from GEOS. It won't fit on a floppy, but is cool anyway.
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 To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic
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 Subject: Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing
Trends)

At 02:46 PM 2/20/98 PST, you wrote:

 and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and
IE4 (I don't use
it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB 
download!) 
If you think that's cool, you need to check out what they are doing  with QNX:
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http://www.qnx.com/iat/createdemo.html

QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the look of Windows 95,  has
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 builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other
little doodads, and  to
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 top it off, a fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web
browser. Also
supports graphics modes up to 1024x768 in millions of colors.

Okay, not amazing enough for you already? How about if I told you it  all
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 ran off a 1.44mb floppy disk? Hmmmm? :)

Everyone owes to themselves to go grab this FREE (yes, FREE) OS and try  it
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 for themselves.

-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-

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